deviation to end the previous geri machbderring that the -- the plaintiffs brought a partisan geri mannedering claim. and the second part is what i alluded to earlier. the court held that the first step of a racial geri man zering claim was that there was a -- greater racial balance. and the fact that they have never produced a plan that does that is a serious problem. if you want to see if race is precome nangtd, you take race out and you run it again and you see what happened. >> let me just give you some numbers here from some of these districts. hd 52. you needed to add 45 -- which was your number one criterion. you added 1143, you missed by two. hd 55, you needed to add 6981, you added 6984. sd 63, you hit it at 15,185. those nibs speak for themselves, don't they? that in each of these cases, you were determined come what may, and disregarding other criteria to maintain the black voting age population. >> i don't think that shows that for two reasons, first i agree with the united states, mr. general, is that the question was that -- >> that was just a coincidence? >> no, but that goes to